Address by Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, for the opening of the scientific forum The Blue Planet - Nuclear Applications for a Sustainable Marine Environment, organized by IAEA in Vienna, Austria, on 17-18 September 2013.
The forum highlighted the importance of coastal and marine systems, the cumulative pressures facing those systems, and the need for collaborative partnerships that utilize a framework of robust science for targeted responses.

on this subject: Scientific Forum: The Blue Planet - Nuclear Applications for a Sustainable Marine Environment (iaea.org)